Chuck Grassley: 'I've Lived Off The Public Tit All These Years'

Translation: Yes, I once worked at a real job, but I've had this sweet gig for nearly 20 years and I'm working it every way I can. When I retire I'll have a huge pension, life-long insurance and make a boatload of money giving speeches to the sucker

"Tit" is one of the seven indecent words enumerated in the FCC vs. Pacifica decision. I thought it wasn't supposed to be uttered on television.

Uncle Sam wears tassels.

The use of the word "tit" does not bother me one bit, but what this man represents now does. As a Republican, he cries and whines about entitlements; however, when he was a private citizen he suckled from the same programs he now derides.

Sen. Grassley is not the only Republican that has suckled from the government teet for most of their lives. As we look down the list, we have Sen. McCain, Dick Armey, and Sen. Phil Gramm, just to name a few.

The hypocrisy in the Republican party is what should be questioned here, and not the word one uses to describe their dependency on the government.

at least it weren't a boar hog...

The funny thing is that most die hard repukes live off the public teet, but then at the same time they bag on government spending. It is really bizarre. No bid contracts, gov't teet. Military contracts, gov't teet. Police and fire men, die hard repukes, suck off the public teet big time. Handouts to religious organizations, gov't teet.

The primary criteria for being a repuke is blatant hypocracy. Typical repuke, "Give me gov't handouts, but not the poor and needy. That's a real handout, I "work" for my handouts." Pathetic.

I grew up with the "Grassleys" of the country. My father was a barber in a farm town in IL famous for the famous "Parity Question" that Reagan didn't understand during his '80 campaign. Grassley danced the question and finessed with the part-time legistators' salary answer. Truth is he was a farmer before becoming a public servant and continues now with his son. Farm subsidies are the public dole as much as ADC and welfare are for urban families. And when you are talking about family farms they are as necessary. A lot of my dad's customers were farmers and I would listen to them discuss how much federal funding they were getting per acre for letting it go fallow that year or dairymen complain how low milk supports were and then go on to complain about so called welfare queens and 99% of the whiners were Republicans.

I'll wager GrASSley still has an economic interest in a farm (or two) and that he proudly touts his legislative support for them, which benefits him, at every turn.

good grief, he's a friggin farmer.

I remember watching Grassley several years back when his hero, prez Bush was giving a state of the union speech and said that the Gov. was going to support corn growers for producing gasohol. Sen. Grassley jumped around so I thought he must have peed his pants.

I'm not sure which son Grassley's talking about, but here's a subsidy report for Robin Grassley, from EWG, a very useful site:

http://farm.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=007143444

Look's like Grassley has lived off the public tit much longer than he stated. Oh well he is a Republican therefore a liar.

That's the ONLY tit he's lived off of. Perhaps if his mother had breast fed him he wouldn't be the Neanderthal he now is...